LAWSUIT/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal appeals court on Tuesday [9-11-18] shot down a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over alleged abuse protesters say they received at a campaign rally in 2016 after he repeatedly urged the crowd to ‘get ’em out of here.’ Two of the three judges on the appellate panel said Trump’s call to oust the demonstrators was protected by the First Amendment because he did not explicitly call for anyone to do something illegal…McKeague said Trump was protected by a 2015 ruling in which the 6th Circuit held that a Christian evangelical group’s anti-Muslim protest was constitutionally protected even though it seemed likely to provoke an angry reaction from attendees at an Arab festival in Detroit. Protesters Henry Brousseau, Kashiya Nwanguma and Molly Shah filed suit a month after the Louisville rally, naming as defendants Trump and three supporters in attendance, including the leader of a white supremacist group. The trio says they were roughly ejected from the rally by Trump supporters after the then-candidate called for them to be kicked out. One of the Trump supporters who was captured on video pushing Nwanguma said in his own filing that he was acting ‘in response to — and inspired by — Trump and/or the Trump Campaign’s urging to remove the protesters.’”
–Josh Gerstwin, “Court hands Trump victory in lawsuit by campaign rally protesters,” Politico, September 11, 2018 2:07 pm